And its such relief for me as well and lots of other mothers that were like me. Reporter her story of great personal loss was documented in an awardwinning movie and the woman who was forced to give up her son shares her story with the pope. All eyes are on russia as the sochi olympics are officially underway. The most expensive Olympic Games in history began smoothly on thursday and qualifying events took place and the olympians arrived and the Opening Ceremony is coming soon and they talked about gay rights and security and promising a safe olympics and rolling out 37,000 police and Security Officers and good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America and im stephanie sy and we are in sochi and good morning and a pretty routine start to the games despite the weeks of anxiety leading up to it. Yeah, well stephanie i suppose as routine as any large Opening Ceremony can be in the most expensive Winter Olympics there has ever been. But, yeah, the Olympic Games always start with a huge gre
Else as we reveal some of the secrets of the opening ceremonies. Who will light the cauldron . Now just hours away. Good morning, america from russia. Came crashing in good morning, america. The games are up and running even before the opening ceremonies and what a night of firsts. So many new events we havent seen before. Lets everybody take a look at slopestyle. This has never been at the olympics before. You see these look at those guys fly. Up to 25 miles an hour. So beautiful. And Team Figure Skating, yes, i said Team Figure Skating kicked off for the first time both men and womens teams you see all competing together for a group gold medal. Russia in the lead right now. All right, the home folks have something to cheer right now. Also, of course, it is the biggest winter games ever. Almost 3,000 athletes competing from almost 90 countries. Thats awesome and 90 is it 98 events . Amazing, 98 events, cannot wait for womens figure skating to start. Robin, i dont know about you. Im ri
Slopestyle. This has never been at the olympics before. You see these look at those guys fly. Up to 25 miles an hour. So beautiful. And Team Figure Skating, yes, i said Team Figure Skating kicked off for the first time both men and womens teams you see all competing together for a group gold medal. Russia in the lead right now. All right, the home folks have something to cheer right now. Also, of course, it is the biggest winter games ever. Almost 3,000 athletes competing from almost 90 countries. Thats awesome and 90 is it 98 events . Amazing, 98 events, cannot wait for womens figure skating to start. Robin, i dont know about you. Im right with you there. Lets get right to our gma olympic headquarters in sochi. Abcs amy robach is there at our olympics desk tracking all of the action. Good morning, amy. Thats right, good morning, and before i get to all of the action ive been practicing all morning long because i want to say something. [ speaking russian ] good morning, america. In rus
Carried off the plane, while Authorities Say in the air, he began to demand they fly the plane to sochi, saying he had a bomb on board. The plane is now in turkey, the plan man in custody. We begin here with abcs chief investigative correspondent, brian ross. Reporter the drama unfolded as the plane landed in istanbul, after pilots signaled there was a man with a bomb and a hijacking was underway. Turkish police say they subdued this 45yearold ukranian man after he was fooled into thinking the plane had actually landed in sochi, as he had demanded. He was leter described as a hooligan, who was under the influence of something, and no explosives were found. The Pegasus Airline jet flew from the ukraine over the black sea to turkey, passing a 350 miles from sochi. The opening ceremonies had been underway for about an hour when the news broke. Helicopters patrolled the air space around the olympic stadium. And there are missile batteries stationed in the mountains above sochi. Just in cas
Woody allen, his daughter from more than two decades ago. Moving on up. Im going to be missing your tv at 12 37. The battle for late night ratings and my fierce rival with ferguson and the veggie commercial. An emotional and humorous farewell to late might, and now he is setting his sights an hour earlier getting ready for his takeover of the tonight show. Today is saturday, february 8th, 2014. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with lester holt, live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to a very special edition of today on this saturday morning. Im lester holt in sochi. Great to see you, ladies, holding down the fort in new york city. The Opening Ceremony last night was really something. Seven years in the making. You could really tell that a huge amount of time and effort went into making it. The spectacle that it was. Did you guys happen to stay up late enough to